markr’s AchillesBlog

Good luck. The first 4 weeks are the most difficult. You need to get your mind in the right place and accept that it is a frustrating 4 weeks that you just need to live through. After the first 4 weeks everything starts to return to normal.

Mark - no need to worry. Your foot is tightly locked up to protect it from any serious damage so a light touch on the ground will not do anything. The lack of stretching had nothing to do with the injury. Tendons do not stretch very much anyway. Stretching before exercise is fading away and has been shown to do more harm.

Dear All:

My name is Mark, and I am 62 years old. I’d like to think that I am in pretty decent shape for my age. I am a middle school teacher, and walk a lot. My biggest regret perhaps, is that I did not do enough stretching. Maybe that contributed to my ordeal?

My story starts in late July. I noticed some pain in the Achilles area, and thought that it was due to shoes rubbing against the area. After buying new shoes, the pain didn’t go away. A trip to the doctor showed a diagnosis of inflamed tendinitis. I was told, try to rest it, and go for PT ….and in around a month it should be fine.

I was exercising, going up and down stairs……when my bad foot (left) caught the stair wrong. Only the front half made the stair and the back flexed back. I felt a pop, and at first things felt good after that. A few minutes later, I felt like I was walking in jello! I wasn’t in any more pain than usual, but the ankle swelled up.

A trip to the orthopedic surgeon on Oct. 5 confirmed that I had ruptured the tendon, and the actual cause of my pain was a spur. He told me that it was reparable, and that he would rem

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